tangle
n. 缠结, 纠结的一团, 困惑, 纠纷, 混乱 vt. 使缠结, 缠住 vi. 缠结, 乱作一团
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教材释义与例句
使纠缠；处于混乱状态
缠结；乱作一团
释义与例句
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A tangled twisted mass.
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A complicated or confused state or condition.
I tried to sort through this tangle and got nowhere.
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An argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
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A region of the projection of a knot such that the knot crosses its perimeter exactly four times.
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A paired helical fragment of tau protein found in a nerve cell and associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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A form of art which consists of sections filled with repetitive patterns.
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Any large type of seaweed, especially a species of Laminaria.
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An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
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Any long hanging thing, even a lanky person.
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To mix together or intertwine.
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To become mixed together or intertwined.
纠结
不及物Her hair was tangled from a day in the wind.
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To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight.
比喻 不及物Don't tangle with someone three times your size.
He tangled with the law.
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To catch and hold.
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词源
From Middle English tanglen, probably of North Germanic origin, compare Swedish taggla (“to disorder”), Old Norse þǫngull, þang (“tangle; seaweed”), see Etymology 2 below.
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